Chapter 334 Proclaiming Emperor (Part 2)
In fact, when Songshou generated electricity and asked to establish Pu Jun as the emperor, many people in the royal family were discussing privately to fight Pu Jun as the emperor, but these discussions were never put on the table because of the most sensitive question, who would become the emperor?
After all, there is only one emperor, and once someone becomes an emperor, the nature of the royal family team will change. Although the royal family team is now led by Shanqi and Pu Hua, it is still a collective decision-making system in general. Major issues are decided by more than a dozen royal families in collective consultation. The dozen royal families who can participate in the decision are generally equal. Although other royal families cannot participate in the decision-making, they can rely on the royal family who can participate in the decision-making and make their own voices. Shanqi and Pu Hua are just leaders and do not have the power to act arbitrarily. Although the result of doing so will lead to difficult decision-making and quarrels with each other, it can strengthen the cohesion of the royal family and fully consider the interests of most royal families. Moreover, at this critical moment, the royal family's decision-making has also been less likely to be quarrels, so the defects have not been revealed.
But after some people become emperors, the situation is very different. Theoretically, the emperor can act arbitrarily, and everyone has changed from cooperative relationships to monarch-subject relationships. If you want to have a situation where everyone can speak freely, it is impossible. Moreover, most people ask themselves that they are not qualified to be emperors. Therefore, everyone also consciously avoids this issue.
However, Zhu Erdian officially proposed to Shanqi and Pu Hua to fight against Pu Jun's power by proclaiming emperor and indeed proclaiming emperor as soon as possible in the royal family. Finally, the question that the royal family members all consciously avoided was put on the table.
Of course, the attitude of the British government cannot be ignored. Moreover, in the current situation, the royal family team really needs to be emperor. After all, Pu Jun has officially become emperor. If the royal family team does not become emperor, it will be unreasonable when confronting Pu Jun's forces. Therefore, Shanqi and Pu Hua recruited important members of the royal family to discuss the matter of becoming emperor.
To be emperor, of course, we must first determine who will become the emperor. First of all, it is a blood relationship. The closer the blood relationship between Xianfeng is, the better. In this way, Shanqi, Yulang, Tieliang, Liangbi, Yinchang and others will be eliminated.
In addition, considering that the new emperor was a continuation of the Qing court, while the first two emperors, Guangxu and Tongzhi were peers, it was best to inherit it by those who were one generation later than Guangxu and Tongzhi. During the Gengjie Kingdom Reform, Cixi chose Pu Jun as the eldest prince, which means that he was one generation later than Guangxu and Tongzhi. In this way, after Pu Jun ascended the throne, he could respect Guangxu and Tongzhi at the same time, that is, each person chose two families. Then Zaixun and Zaize, the royal families of the Zaixun generation were defeated, so the candidates for the emperor were actually the only royal families of the Pu Hua and Pu Lun.
Compared with Pu Hua and Pu Lun, Pu Hua is obviously more suitable to inherit the throne. First of all, from the perspective of title, Pu Hua is the prince and Pu Lun is the son of Bei; secondly, from the perspective of blood, Pu Hua's grandfather, the first generation Prince Gong Yixin, was the brother of Emperor Xianfeng, and had not yet been released for three generations. Pu Lun and the royal family had to go to the Kangxi period. Moreover, Pu Hua was 29 years old this year and had a reputation of being clever and knowledge among the royal family. At the same time, his grandfather, the first generation Prince Gong Yixin, was recognized as a talent in the royal family, which also added a layer of halo to Pu Hua. Therefore, in any aspect, Pu Hua is the most suitable candidate for the emperor.
So the result of negotiation between the royal family was that Pu Hua would succeed to the throne, and Pu Hua was naturally happy. In fact, he thought that the emperor would be the only one who would do it, but the play would still be performed in the whole set. Pu Hua immediately stood up and acted in a panic manner, repeatedly saying that he had no talent and virtue and would never dare to accept the throne. He even knelt on the ground and cried loudly.
Of course, the other royal families were very involved and knelt down, saying that it was the critical survival of the Qing Dynasty, and only Pu Hua was qualified to succeed the throne, so Pu Hua asked to put the country first and not refuse any more.
But Pu Hua still refused and refused again and again. Finally, the royal families helped Pu Hua up from the ground and sat on the main seat. Then everyone knelt in front of Pu Hua and shouted long live. But Pu Hua saw that he could not push him away, so he had to avoid being difficult to express his difficulties. He didn't want to be respectful, but he just saw that everyone had sincerity, so he temporarily held the position of honor. If he did not match his virtue in the future, he would abdicate himself to give way to the wise. In this way, with the cooperation of the royal families, the play was finally completed successfully.
Since the emperor was chosen, he would no longer delay. After all, Pu Jun had already become emperor, and if he was not quicker, he would be passive. Therefore, he could be simple. So three days later, Pu Hua proclaimed himself emperor in Xi'an, with the year name Deyou, and respected Tongzhi, Guangxu was the ancestor, and Tongzhi had a temple name and posthumous title. So after the alliance of the royal family, he respected Guangxu's temple name Dezong and posthumous title Emperor Jing, and his full name was: Tongtian Chongyun Dazhong Zhizheng Wenwei, Wenwei, Martial Wu, Li Xiaorui, Duanjian Kuan and Qinjing Emperor. Although Guangxu is still alive now, Pu Hua needs to declare his orthodox to Guangxu Shangzun to declare his orthodox.
After the year was established, he was given a posthumous title and was named a former king. Next, he was appointed as the foreman of military aircraft. Six people including Zaixun, Zaize, Yulang, Tieliang, Wu Huai, Cen Chunxuan were selected as military aircraft and participated in political affairs.
After Pu Wei became emperor, he planned to imitate Pu Jun and generate electricity to the governors and governors of various provinces, asking them to congratulate him for his ascension to the throne, but Zhu Erdian advised him not to do this, because before that, the governors and governors of various provinces did not send him congratulations, nor would they send him congratulations. Therefore, doing so would have no other meaning except to damage his prestige. It would be better to wait until he went south.
Of course, only Zhu Erdian can say this. Even if others know this truth, it is not convenient to say it. Pu Wei is also aware of it. He also knows that although he is the emperor now, he has no binding force on the governors and governors of various provinces. Therefore, he only generates power to governors and governors of various provinces, telling them that they ascend the throne, but they do not ask them to generate power to congratulate them on the throne. In this way, they will not completely break up with the governors and governors of various provinces. After he goes south in the future, he will have room for ease with each other.
But he was not so polite to Pu Jun. After all, there was no day or day, and no one was the only one. Therefore, the second telegram sent by Pu Wei was to Pu Jun, accusing Pu Jun of being arrogant and being arrogant and violating etiquette. He asked Pu Jun to resign from the emperor's title immediately and confess his guilt to Pu Wei. At the same time, he also expressed his lenient attitude and would pardon Pu Jun's crime of Yue Ji.
Zai Yi, Zai Lan, Pu Jun and the Japanese behind them did not expect that Pu Wei would suddenly become emperor at this time. After Pu Jun became emperor, Japan also came from behind to the front desk, so he had no scruples. So he frequently visited the governors and governors of various provinces, either by coercion or temptation, asking them to recognize Pu Jun's throne.
However, the governors and governors of all provinces have been fighting for decades in the officialdom. Everyone understands that Pu Jun is just a puppet emperor established by Japan, so naturally they will not recognize Pu Jun's throne. Moreover, Japan is also a strong middle-class and foreign player, which cannot pose a substantial threat to the governors and governors of various provinces. Of course, Britain, France and other countries have also tried their best to persuade the governors and governors of various provinces not to recognize Pu Jun's throne. They also said that the Congresses of Britain, France and other countries have stopped Japan's threats, so they have confidence. As a result, Japan's lobbying and persuasion is useless at all.
Now that Pu Hua has also become emperor, it is even more unfavorable to Pu Jun, because in the Qing court, Pu Hua's reputation was indeed much better than Pu Jun. Therefore, after Pu Hua became emperor, Pu Jun's situation would be more difficult. However, before several Japanese consultants discussed countermeasures with Zai Yi and Zai Lan, Pu Hua's telegram was sent to Fuzhou. After receiving the telegram, Zai Yi and Zai Lan were shocked and angry, and the Japanese consultants also knew that they had to respond to Pu Hua's telegram as soon as possible. The longer it delayed, the more unfavorable it was for Pu Jun.
So after several Japanese consultants negotiated with Zai Yi and Zai Lan, they immediately replied to Pu Hua with a telegram, which was accusing Pu Hua of being Yue Ji's self-esteem, and that Pu Jun was once made the eldest prince, but in fact it was the crown prince to prove the legitimacy of Pu Jun's claim to be emperor. Pu Hua privately claimed to be honored. Therefore, he also asked Pu Hua to immediately abandon the emperor's title and apologize, and also sent a power to the governors and governors of various provinces, requiring them not to recognize Pu Hua's throne.
In fact, the governors and governors of various provinces will neither recognize Pu Jun's throne nor recognize Pu Hua's throne. Therefore, Pu Jun's behavior is just a way to follow the trend, resulting in a situation where governors and governors of various provinces will obey Pu Jun's orders.
Pu Jun's call naturally angered Pu Hua and others. He was Pu Jun's telegram to the governors and governors of various provinces, demanding that they were not allowed to recognize Pu Hua's throne, and even so he took advantage of the favors. So after Pu Hua and others negotiated, they also sent a telegram to the governors and governors of various provinces, listing Pu Jun's seventeen crimes. First of all, of course, they denied Pu Jun's title of eldest prince, because this involved the legality of Pu Jun's title of emperor, and Pu Jun's title of eldest prince was indeed abolished by Guangxu's explicit order, so it was not wrong. Other crimes include disrespect for ancestors, unfilial to parents, frivolous behavior, humiliation, etc.
Of course, after Pu Hua's telegram was sent, Pu Jun's side was naturally not willing to be outdone, and also produced a telegram of 24 serious crimes from Pu Hua and sent it as a counterattack.
At this time, the governors and governors of various provinces were happy to see them scolding each other, just like a joke, and of course some were heartbroken. Unexpectedly, the Qing Dynasty had fallen to such a state, and Pu Wei and Pu Jun were still fighting for the throne. It seemed that the Qing Dynasty was indeed beyond salvation.
However, the mutual attacks between Pu Wei and Pu Jun did not last long. It was mainly because Pu Hua's side had other things that involved energy. It turned out that the People's Army finally sent troops again and officially began the westward expedition. In the first battle, it conquered Niangzi Pass and entered Shanxi Province. Although the army had not yet been over, the threat of the People's Army must not be underestimated. Pu Hua's side naturally had to deal with the People's Army with all their strength, and did not have the energy to sue Pu Jun again.
Chapter completed!